Word: knowed
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...standard advice for young writers has always been "Write what you know." Raymond Carver did exactly that. It so happens that for most of his life, what Carver knew best was hardship, both physical and psychological. In his short stories--tight-lipped parables of abjection that became hugely influential in the 1980s--life is a kind of nonstop distress sale. The apartments are shabby; the rent is unpaid; the living room furniture has been carried outside and strewn across the lawn. The people seem dislocated too, even when they're stuck in one place, licking their wounds and drinking hard...
...illusory and deceitful.” He went on to argue that such art “imprisons man within himself and further enslaves him, depriving him of hope and joy.” (Tough words for those of us who didn’t know we were enslaved in the first place: could the papal library stock Weber and Nietzsche?) The spleen was perhaps only to be expected from a bishop who, prior to donning the mitre, frequently provoked the press barb “God’s Rottweiler...
...love working with Buesser,” Dempsey said. “We kind of have, I wouldn’t say the same style of play, but we complement each other really well. I always know that she’s going to go out there as hard as she can and be in the right spots at the right time?...
...from Kenya, I know what forged elections mean,” said Mwaura...
...holding a meeting," the group wrote in the description for the event on Facebook. "At this meeting, they will attempt to certify their presidential election, but we all know that it will most likely result in more of the verbal diarrhea we've witnessed over the past week...